She works laborious for her doll-ars.
Barbie has a historical past of surprising value tags, however this was the costliest one ever offered — auctioned off at Christie’s in Manhattan for $302,500.
The bedazzled doll — designed by Australian jeweler Stefano Canturi — incorporates a necklace with a 1-carat pink diamond within the middle alongside and a glowing diamond ring.
All proceeds from the 2010 sale went to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
“It’s a pleasure for us to have offered the costliest Barbie ever,” the President of Christie’s Americas, Bonnie Brennan, informed The Post. “And we had been thrilled that the consignor donated 100% of the income to learn breast most cancers analysis.”
The first Barbie ever made — which debuted in 1959 for simply $3 — can also be value a fairly penny, even with none bling.
The iconic first-edition doll, which has blonde hair and wears a striped black-and-white bathing swimsuit and may be recognized by the holes on the underside of her toes, is promoting on eBay for upwards of $25,000 as Barbie-mania, spawned by the Friday premiere of the Hollywood film, takes over America.
The unique Barbie was created by the late Ruth Handler, who co-founded the toy firm Mattel along with her husband in 1945 and named the doll after her daughter Barbara.
